About the role
We are looking for a Finance Intern to join our Finance team and support the day-to-day running of the accounts payable cycle. Beyond A/P, you will help us review and automate finance processes and get hands-on exposure to other areas of the department, including Financial Controlling where needed. It is a practical, learning-focused role: you will own real tasks from day one, work closely with experienced finance professionals, and see how a finance function operates end to end.

Key responsibilities
Accounts payable cycle
• Receive, check and register supplier invoices in the ERP, ensuring correct coding (accounts, cost centres, VAT, departments)
• Coordinate invoice approvals with budget owners across the business
• Prepare payment proposals and support weekly payment runs
• Maintain supplier master data and support new vendor onboarding
• Reconcile supplier statements and answer supplier queries
• Support A/P tasks during month-end close (accruals, open-items review, aging reports) Payments and bank reconciliations
• Prepare and upload payment batches in online banking, and check them against approved invoices before release
• Record payments in the ERP and apply them to the correct supplier invoices
• Perform regular bank reconciliations, matching bank movements to ERP entries
• Investigate and resolve unreconciled items, bank fees and unidentified transactions
• Support daily cash position updates and cash flow reporting Process review and automation
• Map current finance processes and identify manual, repetitive or error-prone steps
• Propose and help implement improvements and automations (ERP workflows, Excel/Google Sheets models,



scripts or AI tools)
• Help document processes and keep procedures and checklists up to date
• Track the impact of changes (time saved, fewer errors, faster close) Shadowing other areas of finance
• Shadow the Financial Controlling team on month-end close, reporting, budgeting and forecasting
• Gain exposure to cash management, treasury and cash flow reporting
• Support analyses and reports where useful, building a broad view of how the finance function works Other ad-hoc tasks
• Support audits and data requests from internal and external stakeholders
• Help with ad-hoc analyses, reconciliations and projects as business needs arise What we're looking for Requirements
• Currently studying, or recently graduated in, Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics or a related field
• Basic understanding of accounting principles (double entry, invoices, VAT)
• Good Excel or Google Sheets skills (formulas, pivot tables, lookups)
• Fluent English; Spanish is a plus
• Detail-oriented, organised and comfortable handling deadlines
• Curious, proactive and keen to improve how things are done Nice to have
• Experience with an ERP system (preferably NetSuite)
• Interest in automation and data tools (mainly AI tools)
• Previous internship or experience in a finance or accounting team What you'll gain
• Hands-on experience across the full A/P cycle in a real finance team
• Exposure to Financial Controlling, reporting and cash management
• The chance to design and ship process improvements with visible impact
• Mentoring from experienced finance professionals *
* Applications must be submitted in English to be considered

📌 Finance Intern (Barcelona)
🏢 Mad Collective
📍 Barcelona